When Photography Becomes Art

Photographer Krzysztof Such And Queens Park: The Peoples Park

Photographer Krzysztof Such

Krzysztof Such is originally from Iwonicz-Zdrój, a small town in Poland. He has lived in Crewe, Cheshire, in the United Kingdom, for 15 years. Krzysztof has been interested in photography for the last seven years. For today's article, although his collection is vast and diverse, I have concentrated on his images of Queens Park, the Peoples Park, in Crewe, England. His other projects have a similar artistic feel to them also. There is always slight darkness to most of his photographs; they are usually framed in such a way as to tell a story in multiple layers. See what you think! I love them.

Queens Park is a public park initially donated and opened to the burgeoning railway town by Queen Victoria in 1887. The park is a Grade II listed public park designed by railway engineer Francis Webb, Richard Moon, Mayor of Crewe in 1888, and well-known garden designer Edward Kemp.

The park is a popular spot and features the largest lake in the area, with boats for hire. The park also includes a Victorian Clock Tower, playgrounds, and several monuments to British soldiers killed in the Boer War of 1899–1902, plus subsequent wars and conflicts. The exceptional talent of local photographers can also be seen on Queens Park Crewe — The People's Park, a private Facebook group.

Contrast the bright colors of the forefront to the darkness above.

Exceptional use of drone photography drawing the eye from top-left to bottom-right.

Exceptional use of winter colorings, hues, and shades. Note the colors included if you look carefully.

Dead or alive? The sharpness of the plant's protection and definition is atop the out-of-focus background.

Darkness is topped by color and then brightness.

A clever image. The shiny but harsh metal atop the fragile, living, breathing nature below.

The photographer could have well painted this image. Layer upon multiple layers, telling numerous stories as your eyes look from top to bottom.

The many shades between black and white make this exceptional image moody and mysterious.

We see the use of moisture and darkening light in contrast to the framed, sharp, beautiful color.

The Boer War Memorial is also known as the South African War Memorial. It was erected in memory of local soldiers who had served or fallen in the Boer War and consisted of a bronze statue of a soldier in uniform standing on a column on a stone plinth. The monument was unveiled in 1903 and contained plaques with the names of those lost in the war.

A delicate and detailed image of beauty and damage framed yet again perfectly.

I love how these flowers are explicitly centered with the sun in the middle, immediately drawing your eyes.

Another fantastic image of the Boer War Memorial, again ideally framed by flowers, trees, buildings, and clouds.

Layers of color from bottom to top in various layers.

The extraordinary use of drone photography highlights the symmetry often missed on the ground.

An exceptional image demonstrates the use of layers and framing within a piece of art.

A reminder of childhood, almost Narnia-like in appearance. I am looking from the dark into the light ahead.

Another example of what could've easily been a painting.

Although, at first sight, the image looks like a 'regular' photograph, you immediately notice the use of colors and shades. Framed to make your eyes look over every inch.

A sharp and natural forefront, a soft emerging life, and robust and long-lived greenery at the rear.

A perfect drone image illustrates symmetry while the sun and nature work together, bringing the vision alive.

Again a framed image of just three parts. That seems to be much more.

This is a beautiful image of nature at its best. Delicacy and strength simultaneously in a photograph that most would willingly hang on their walls.

A fantastic image of fine delicate plants that also appear to be layered in strength, not unlike manufactured architecture.

A picture postcard image. Yet, the 'darkness' of a Krzysztof Such photograph can still be seen and felt.

The photographer always finds a way to ensure the object is more potent, not only by the use of multiple shading but also, in this case, by the position the image is shot.

Framed and layered in at least eight different ways.

Stunning camera use in obtaining an image of delicate webs and angles above a solid vertical column.

The use of two intense colors superimposed atop the perfect background.

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